I’m working with an FDRsafety client to help abate a lockout citation. From the outset we included workers as subject matter experts and employed Task Based Risk Assessment, also known as TaBRA. Because of my passion for integrating a lean …
A prospective client asked about the ROI of using lean and safe thinking to build an organizational culture where safety is a value and elimination of waste is part of the company’s DNA. This is a tough question, as the …
Preventive maintenance and safety are disciplines not typically seen as closely related, but bridging the two silos can help identify low probability risks with severe injury potential. A risk assessment of your facility and processes, talking with maintenance workers and …
It’s easy for safety professionals to keep their gaze on the trees rather than the forest. There are plenty of pressing daily problems to solve and it becomes easy to push strategic thinking to the back burner. For those who …
As we have stressed here before, a key factor in safety is making sure that the people involved have the right attitude. That truth is driven home by a fascinating article called “Cognitive – Behavioral Safety: How Stages of Change …
Why is it that safety professionals keep hoping to instill safe behavior by dealing only with the minds of employees? Think about it — skills training, hazard awareness and even (from my perspective) the misguided attempt to have one employee …
It’s the time of year when many people do a personal evaluation with the thought of improving themselves during the coming year. This post suggests reviewing how we are practicing the profession of safety by looking at the ghost of …
An OSHA directive on lockout states, “Setting up is not considered utilization of a machine or equipment and is classified as servicing and/or maintenance, rather than normal production operations.” The significance of that statement is that lockout must be applied …
The path to “getting to zero” and eliminating accidents from the workplace does not lie in applying ever greater pressure on employees to follow the rules. Success lies rather in motivating workers to “want to” act safely rather than having …
I spent the last 10 years of a 40-plus year career seeking out emerging global health and safety issues to help General Motors align its manufacturing practices and policies with regulation, standards and other external forces over which we had …